It is so nice to have people comment positively on your work, I myself get it very often through email, MySpace comments, etc. My real interest piqued in reading some of the congratulatory and animated comments from the KrucialKeys blog readers. So for the record, I am not particularly feeling the official remix. I thought, for instance, that the reggae remix to You Don’t Know My Name was GREAT, and I could not have done as good a job myself. And this is not a competitive-producer-I-made-my-own-remix-so-I-am-biased answer, it’s my honest opinion.
Now, I am very humble, would be the first to admit being thoroughly outdone, and this is certainly not a contest, but the official remix isn’t really killing it to me. However, with the entire Alicia Keys machine behind them, including her singing new vocals, and the addition of Damien Marley, they put out a cool version too. Some of my other works are definitely better. I thought I put out a cool version of No One, though hardly complex or spectacular. So this morning, I checked the KrucialKeys blog, and there it was: Alicia Keys featuring Damian Marley – No One ( Official Reggae Remix). Plus, the vocals were different it wasn’t simply a new-beat+acapella remix like the ones I do. Since unofficial remixes like my own seem to get played in nearly every city in the USA except here, I figured it was the real deal official remix.
Last night, I heard a bit of a reggae remix of Alicia Keys‘ No One, on Hot-97 in New York.